Changes in pension enhancements related to children

These two decrees are made pursuant to Article 104 of the 2026 Social Security Financing Act. This Article amends the conditions for taking into account certain periods treated as periods contributed for early retirement for long careers.

This changes for beneficiaries of bonuses or increases in the duration of insurance for children

1/ The number of years taken into account to establish the average salary, the average income or the average number of annual points used to calculate the retirement pension, until now set at 25, is reduced for schemes calculating pensions in better years of income (general social security scheme, agricultural social mutuality – MSA, self-employed social scheme – RSI). It moves to:

• 24 years where insured persons benefit from an increase or a bonus in respect of only one child ;
• 23 years where insured persons benefit from an increase or a rebate under of at least 2 children.

2/ An improvement 1 trimester for women who have given birth from 1^er January 2004 and after their recruitment into the civil service or as workers in the industrial establishments of the State.

3/ The bonuses or increases in the duration of insurance granted in respect of children are taken into account in the period deemed to be assessed, necessary for early retirement for long career.

The following are affected by these changes: insured persons covered by the general scheme, the civil service scheme, the liberal professions scheme, the lawyers scheme, the schemes for employed and self-employed farmers and the pension scheme applicable in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.